Artemiev's model game against Hedgehog system from Magnus Carlsen

official site: http://www.chess.com Artemiev wins against Magnus Carlsen game 4 on Speed Chess Championship. Hedgehog system for Black. Artemiev makes g3-g4 work for him. A promising player.

Hikaru beats Carlsen today in St Louis Blitz

Fantastic game by GM Hikaru.

Video replay here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNxwzJwtQIY&t=189s

14 f5!? with expansion on kingside. 14... Rd7? big mistake by Carlsen as 15 Nd5! and Black will not be able to push d6-d5.  it is surprising as Black was not lost after 14 f5!? for instance Ne7 or my preferred move would be Qb6+ followed by Nb4 controlling d5 and preparing Nxd3.

22Qh4!! is the winning move most likely missed by Carlsen who resigned a move later. Game analysis embedded in replay window above powered by lichess.org

Team TSM 

Carlsen tactics (Carlsen-Ding Liren 2020 Chess24.com Finals)

today I'd like to go over the game from Magnus Carlsen against Ding Liren, a sharp sicilian defense game.www.chess24.com for full coverage

Critical position 1:

Both players went into a dynamic types of positions ( Sicilian Najdorf by Ding Liren). with Kings on opposite sides. 

White to play in diagram above.

Hint: Magnus was looking at 27 Rf3 and 27Rf7+. Can you calculate the lines ?

Critical position 2 (analysis):

White had to evaluate 27Rf7+ Kf7 28 Qe6+ Kg7 leading to the following diagram, white to play.

can Black defend and what is White's best move ?

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Solution

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Magnus looked at 29 Qe7+ Kg8  30 Nxe5 but 30..Rh7! saves Black.

White would win by playing 29 Ne7! , and here's why:

if 29..Rab8 30 Qg6+ Kf8 31Rf1+ wins

if 29..Rh7 30 Rf1! Qc4 31 Qf7+ Kh8 32 Ng6 checkmate

if 29..Qxc4 30 Qg6+ Kf8 31 Nf5! Qe4+ 32 Ka1 wins.

in the game Magnus played 27Rf3 f5 28 gf6+ Nf6 29 Qg2 Qd7 which allowed Ding to come back into the game. But eventually Magnus won the game anyway.

Carlsen miniatures in bullet chess

Hello Magnus Carlsen won yesterday  the monthly bullet tournament on lichess


I thought I would showcase 2 super quick wins ( miniatures) against GMs.

First, Andrew Tang (US GM-penguingm1 on lichess! ) plays 1 d4 d5 2Bf4 which is a sideline -Queen's Pawn Game or London-

Here's how Black won this game Magnus, playing under DrNykterstein username

[Event "Titled Arena July '20"] [Site "lichess.org"] [Date "2020.07.25"] [Round "?"] [White "penguingim1"] [Black "DrNykterstein"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D00"] [WhiteElo "2996"] [BlackElo "3174"] [Annotator "thechesscorner@gmail.com"] [PlyCount "38"] [EventDate "2020.??.??"] [TimeControl "60"] 1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 c5 3. e3 cxd4 4. exd4 Nc6 5. c3 Bf5 6. Nf3 e6 7. Nbd2 Bd6 8. Bxd6 (8. Bg3 Bxg3 9. hxg3) 8... Qxd6 9. Nh4 Bg6 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. h3 g5 12. Be2 (12. Qg4 f6) 12... Nf6 13. O-O O-O-O {sharp} 14. b4 Kb8 15. b5 Ne7 16. Re1 Ng6 $1 17. Nf1 Nf4 18. Ne3 $4 (18. Bf3) 18... Ne4 $1 19. Rc1 Nxh3+ $19 {20 gh3 Rh3 21.Ng4 Nf2! 22Nf2 Qg3+ wins} 0-1

Carlsen-Giri Game Analysis with Variations and PGN

Official Website here chess24

Brilliant attack by Carlsen against Giri , using his prep in semi-tarrasch.
Carlsen-Giri 2020

Carlsen-Giri 2020
chess24.com chessable final

positional win Carlsen-Nakamura game 3 MCI Final

Carlsen-Nakamura Rapid Magnus Invitational game 3 today

Positional win : analysis here

https://share.chessbase.com/SharedGames/share/?p=GQRXjYuKajTrZWbL+23Cv3u4SpUbqKz/QgVxABwwp1C0CTrMpyO/MEIKHXbaI2H3


Automated replay of game below